Senator Ted Kennedy

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The educational reformer talks to Slate about what she now sees as her big mistakes on school reform. Whatever you think of Ravitch, who was for many years a key thought leader among conservatives, and a big backer of No Child Left Behind (which she now repudiates), it's so rare to see someone of her stature admit forthrightly that she was wrong. Excerpt:
[Ravitch:] You know, I've always had a ...

Barry,
I agree with you on the fact that most Americans don't like government 'secrecy' and in many respects the vote in Massachusetts clearly reflected a total disgust with the way Washington is operating - especially with health care reform.
As you correctly pointed out, this whole health care process has been a nightmare - made worse because of decisions by the Pres ...

Even though polls were pointing in this direction, I still feel stunned today by Republican Scott Brown's defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in yesterday's special election here in Massachusetts. Stunned because I had deep personal respect for Ted Kennedy . Stunned because people bought the "I'll rise above politics" line Brown toted. And stunned because the symbolic tenor ...

Whoa ! I didn't think he'd be able to pull it off! So far it's 52 to 47 in the one of the most liberal states of the union. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat is now in the hands of a Republican because of health care "reform." Don't you just love the irony?
The Associated Press called the race for Brown as the Republican held a 53 percent to 46 percent edge over Coakley with more than 70 percent of p ...

Congratulations to Senator-elect Brown - in the end, he was a better candidate and ran a better campaign against the hapless Martha Coakley, who thought she could coast on Kennedy-Obama coat-tails into office. A single statistic explains all - @marcambinder notes that "Coakley had 19 events after the primary through Sunday; Scott Brown had 66." And more than anything else, the election outcom ...

by Lynn Hayes I won't attempt to dissect the cause of the loss yesterday of Ted Kennedy's longtime Democratic senate seat to Republican challenger Scott Brown when Brilliant at Breakfast has done such a brilliant job. The timing of the loss of the seat that Kennedy held for 47 years coincides with the challenging square from Saturn (challenge, conservative values, repres ...

The defeat of the Democrats choice to succeed Ted Kennedy in the U.S.
Senate is being treated as though there is a decided shift of mass
opinion to the Right in the U.S. But it is the Obama Administration,
not the people who supported him in 2008, which moved to the Right--in
the name of being pragmatists or realists-- in the process emptying
their own agenda in regard to health care, ...